Tonight the network airs Rush: The Rise of Kings 1968-1981, and in an exclusive clip, Copeland talks about the time the Police came up as part of the U.K. punk scene and saw Rush as the enemy.

"They're Canadian," he says in the video. "They are the best guys on the planet. I don't know if being Canadian has anything to do with it, but Rush are one of the best hangs in show business. Back when my band, the Police, was a struggling punk rock [band], just trying to make noise and cause attention and throwing bombs wherever we could. Rush? That's some place where we threw bombs."

You can see the clip below.

As time moved on and such genre distinctions lost their meaning, Copeland learned that the beef was one-sided. "And years later, it turns out Rush -- [the] guys in the band -- Neil Peart, is so Canadian that he didn't even mind," he recalls. "And we became really great friends in spite of the fact that we used to criticize his band when we were just trying to get attention. I think he's old and wise and Canadian enough to understand all that. They couldn't be nicer if they were New Zealanders, also a nation that only produces good people."